Dr. Gurnam Singh

Dr. Gurnam Singh is a kirtan singer and scholar of Gurmat Sangeet, the raga-based music of the Guru Granth Sahib. As founding head of the Department of Gurmat Sangeet at Punjabi University in Patiala, he brought the tradition into university teaching, and over more than thirty years he has also taught at universities abroad. He has recorded the 31 principal ragas of the Guru Granth Sahib in his own voice and has been honoured as “Shiromani Ragi” by the SGPC and the Government of Punjab.